Populations

Today in class we basically learned a ton about population. We learned about how much out population has grown and how many years it took for us to get to certain amounts of people. It was quite interesting. We learned about the different life expectancies. Ours is 76.05 for men and 81.05 for women. We learned about crude birth rate which is number of births per 1000 of the population. Crude death rate is the number of deaths per 1000 of the population. Immigration is people coming to the state and emigration is people leaving the country. Push forces is what drives a person from a country. Pull forces are what attract people to a certain country. Some pushes are wars, unemployment, religious persecution, and environmental degradation. Some pulls are economic opportunity, health services, religious freedom, and political freedom. We also learned about total fertility rate which is fairly important. TFR is the average number of children born per woman. Our TFR is 2.06. If it’s higher than 2.1 it rises. If its lower than 2.1 it falls. I also learned we are having a test either Thursday or Friday....fun fun fun...:)